Excess Quotes · Page 14

The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.

— William Shakespeare

“To the starved eyes of one such as I, there seemed to be an excess of muchness”

— Anonymous

Excess in all other Things whatever, as well as in Meat and Drink, is also to be avoided.

— Benjamin Franklin

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

— Bernard Tschumi

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

— Arthur Koestler

“Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.”

— Compton Mackenzie

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The nature of markets, and that includes player acquisition markets, is such that sooner or later any set of successful formulae that…

— John W. Henry

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by…

— Walter Savage Landor

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum…

— Plautus

“...in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom…

— Jack Kerouac

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually…

— Bill Watterson

With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of…

— Joaquin Sorolla

Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with…

— Horace

[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and…

— Bill McCollum

Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful to us…

— Mary Ruwart

North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their…

— Barbara Demick

Breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor…

— Hunter S. Thompson

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to…

— Sebastian Horsley

“And Noelle discovered that even unlimited excess loses its charm, the thrill of getting anything she wanted wearing thinner and thinner. Wasn’t…

— Joe Ide

Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire…

— Hugh Nibley

When I moved to L. A. with this little wimpy garage band, the first people we met were the Doors. Then we…

— Alice Cooper

Bend down, bend down. Excess is the only ease, so bend. The sun is in the tree. Put your mouth on mine.…

— Stan Rice

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

— Tim Ferriss

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

— Aristotle

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in…

— Robert Aris Willmott

The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.

— Billy Graham

Do not spend in excess like one who is careless of what is good, nor be miserly; the mean is best in…

— Pythagoras

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Give me excess of love, whatever it costs. We pay with our souls, and if we die with our souls intact we…

— Louise Carey

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

— Will Durant

If you're going to dedicate your career to ranting about the excesses of American capitalism, you probably shouldn't weigh 450 pounds.

— Greg Giraldo

Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

— Calvin Trillin

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating

— Jean Anouilh

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you think penguins are fat and waddle, you have never been attacked by one running at you in excess of 100…

— Linus Torvalds

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

— Joseph Addison

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.

— Seneca the Younger